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News and features
Health: Who joins up care between appointments?
Section: HealthAfter World Patient Safety Day, five questions about long-term illness, handovers and the work patients do to keep care connected.
Mental Health: Taking physical symptoms seriously
Section: Mental HealthEngland’s mortality data raises a practical question: how can mental-health care ensure physical symptoms lead to investigation, treatment and continuing support?
UK Policy and Politics: Would a tech-funded online-crime agency make help easier to reach?
Section: UK Policy and PoliticsWhat would the Liberal Democrats’ proposed agency do, who would pay, and would victims get a clearer route to help? A policy Q&A with an AE reading.
Economics: Who absorbs Bangladesh’s higher fuel bill?
Section: EconomicsAn extra 20 taka per litre has to be absorbed somewhere. Following that cost shows why public savings and everyday affordability need to be assessed together.
Research and reviews
When a research paper becomes a tool, who remains responsible?
Nature’s Paper2Agent study makes research methods easier to reuse through AI agents. An AE review distinguishes successful execution from scientific judgement and accountable control.
A cheap chip is not the same as a cheap consequence
A peer-reviewed low-carbon-computing paper examines the electronics hidden in everyday products. An AE reading asks why making a device can be easier than sustaining its useful life.
Who has to do the work of making research greener?
A peer-reviewed workshop paper offers sustainability advocates practical training. An AE reading asks what changes when skills meet institutional authority—and who carries the work.
When the feed gets it right, can you still leave?
An accepted ASSETS study separates relevant short-video recommendations from the ability to stop. An AE reading asks whose effort and future activities a successful feed leaves out.
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